The USCG estimates the contraband had an estimated wholesale value of $2 million.

The drugs were intercepted Aug. 17 south of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from a 30-foot boat suspected of smuggling.

As the USCG ships converged on the suspect boat, the smugglers dumped the dope into the ocean. Coast Guard personnel recovered 55 bales of pot from the water.

A much more expensive seizure was unloaded by crews from the Cutter Resolute, at Coast Guard Station St. Petersburg. The 2,921 pounds of cocaine and 1,300 pounds of marijuana were valued at $36 million.

The cocaine was seized from four suspected Honduran smugglers off the coast of Honduras Sept. 27. The marijuana was aboard a go-fast boat that dumped the bales overboard as the Coast Guard approached.

The Resolute's crew fished 45 bales of marijuana from the Atlantic.

Petty Officer Michael DeNyse said, "The interdictions were carried out as part of Operation Martillo, which is one component in the U.S. Government's 'whole-of-government' approach to countering the use of the Central American littorals as transshipment routes for illicit drugs, weapons, and cash. Operation Martillo is an international operation focused on sharing information and bringing together air, land, and maritime assets from the U.S. Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and Western Hemisphere and European partner nation agencies to counter illicit trafficking."